“Nobody gave Clay a chance, especially the New York writers, they didn’t think much of him at all,” he said about the first Liston fight. “Everybody thought that fight was fixed. Liston was connected with the racket guys. The boxing commission tried to get him disentangled from that, but when the fight happened, the mob connection was still there. Nobody thought Clay could fight. So everybody thought it was a fake.”

unrest has gone from a foreign affairs euphemism to a tangible anxiety throughout North America, particularly among players and executives in the National Hockey League. One hundred and fifty-one NHL players are headed to Sochi